So, we all agree on that chicklit sucks ass.
How do we go about fixing this?
Not by granting the genre more attention IRL, but by promoting the fewer non-chicklit books that are actually good.

Also, I vote for us writing better books, or at least if nothing else create an idea repository for authors who want to write better books, in this thread. Ready, set, go!

Personally, I have a lot of ideas for books I want to write, but they're more of stories where the main character just happens to be female, rather than being some sort of empowered zomg woman story that will smite chick lit. The main chars are likely to have part geek in them. I hate chick lit and would hate to write anything like it, but trying to write something that actually is related to it (in this case by intentionally striving to write something that works as it's opposite) makes me shudder as well. I want to write stories I find interesting, not having to look at something I hate in an attempt to spite it.

random graphical novel with a woman as main char:
"Miss Terrified and Love"
http://www.bokrecension.se/9100568767
I can translate the (sorta crappy but I couldn't find anything better with the tiny amount of effort I spent on looking for a review) review page if anyone wants to, it's a damned neat graphical novel, it's a bit abstract in all the right ways, and in spite of that the main char is a woman it's not chick lit in any way, plenty of guys have no problems with identifying well with the main char. The author also wrote a (graphical) novel that took the story of Cinderella and retold it in several different ways, in comparison to the Disney version. It was awesome. ^_^

Sorry about this tl;dr...